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IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Call for Papers
Far-Field Speech Processing in the Era of Deep Learning
Speech Enhancement, Separation and Recognition
Far-field speech processing has become an active field of research due to recent scientific
advancements and its widespread use in commercial products. This field of research deals with
speech enhancement and recognition using one or more microphones placed at a distance from
one or more speakers. Although the topic has been studied for a long time, recent successful
applications (starting with Amazon Echo) and challenge activities (CHiME and REVERB) greatly
accelerated progress in this field. Concurrently, deep learning has created a new paradigm that
has led to major breakthroughs both in front-end signal enhancement, extraction, and
separation, as well as in back-end speech recognition. Furthermore more deep learning
provides a means of jointly optimizing all components of far-field speech processing in an
end-to-end fashion. This special Issue is a forum to gather the latest findings in this very active
field of research, which is of high relevance for the audio and acoustics, speech and language,
and machine learning for signal processing communities. This issue is an official post-activity of
the ICASSP 2018 special session "Multi-Microphone Speech Recognition" and the 5th CHiME
Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge (CHiME-5 challenge).
Topics of interest in this special issue include (but are not limited to):
● Multi-/single-channel speech enhancement (e.g., dereverberation, noise reduction,
separation)
● Multi-/single-channel noise robust speech recognition
● Far-field speech processing systems
● End-to-end integration of speech enhancement, separation, and/or recognition
Prospective authors should follow the instructions given on the IEEE JSTSP webpage:
https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/ieee-journal-selected-topics-signal-pr
ocessing, and submit their manuscript through the web submission system at:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jstsp-ieee.
Important date
● Submission deadline November 10, 2018
● 1st review completed: January 15, 2019
● Revised manuscript due: March 15, 2019
● 2nd review completed: May 15, 2019
● Final manuscript due: June 15, 2019
● Publication: August 2019